NASA’s Chandra Spacecraft Returns to Normal Pointing Mode
The safe mode was caused by a glitch in one of Chandra's gyroscopes resulting in a 3-second period of bad data that, in turn, led the on-board...
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Advanced Spacecraft Navigation Techniques to be Studied by Astrobotic for NASA JPL
Though the software will be designed to be applicable to a range of missions, spacecraft, and sensors, the team is working toward a landed...
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Hubble “We Have a Problem” … Now in Safe Mode as Gyro Issues are Diagnosed
Redundancy is NASA's best friend, and so it is with the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA stands ready for failures with backups, and even ...
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Bright Ascension Develops Software in Support of VORAGO’s RH-OBC-1 Plug-and-Play Components for Smallsats
The Onboard Computer (OBC) has been designed as a plug-and-play component for cubesats orbiting in high radiation environments. Radiation...
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Transponder Tumult for APSTAR-6
A power loss is the root cause of the transponder troubles, which required customer traffic reliant upon those transponders to be suspended. The company moved...
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Precise, Autonomous SmallSat Formation Flight from Space Flight Laboratory Scores the Canadian Alouette Award
Established in 1998 at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) was the developer of the...
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NASA’s JPL Voyager Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years of Rest
Since 2014, engineers have noticed that the thrusters Voyager 1 has been using to orient the spacecraft, called "attitude control thrusters," have been...
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Kubos – KubOS 1.0 Enters the Market for Smallsat Builds
Kubos is the first open source platform for space, with more than 200 active engineers in the Kubos open source community...
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US Service Academies Engage in Swarm Challenge to Push the Boundaries of Autonomous Swarm Capabilities
US Naval Academy wins three-day tournament over US. Military Academy and US Air Force Academy in experiment designed to develop innovative tactics for large groups of unmanned aerial vehicles...
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Rajant Flies in with Advanced Onboard Intelligence for UAVs
Rajant’s network technology now makes it possible for one pilot to operate many x2i aircraft concurrently...
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